May 23, 2008

New Spam Filtering Setup

We have introduced a new spam-filtering configuration for the departmental server. We're still using SpamAssassin to identify spam and procmail to filter mail, but we have added improved backscatter filtering, a duplicate-message filter, a rationalized folder scheme and automatic daily archiving.

To use the new setup, run the command activate-mail-filter on mathserv or your linux workstation.